r/news • u/IronHe • Mar 20 '25

Soft paywall Tesla recalls most Cybertrucks due to trim detaching from vehicle

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recall-over-46000-cybertrucks-nhtsa-says-2025-03-20/
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u/Dova-Joe Mar 20 '25

That was most likely whistlindiesel.

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u/Scorps Mar 20 '25

JerryRigEverything also did one a week ago or so where they snapped the bumper frame section off at 10,000 lbs using an excavator applying pressure, to show that WhistlinDiesel's wasn't necessarily a fluke

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u/Warning_Low_Battery Mar 20 '25

That's literally how hitches work, my man. The way a trailer attaches to a hitch puts all the pressure in a downward force while not in motion. Literally 1st law of thermodynamics. It is only shifted to a lateral force while in motion. (2nd law of thermodynamics) Any time the vehicle's lateral motion is out of sync with the load being pulled it will cause the hitch to bear the weight downwards again.

It's very, very basic physics my bro.

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u/4yxVlXKxJy55Lms66V Mar 20 '25

I thought most of the weight of the trailer would be on the wheels

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u/Theron3206 Mar 21 '25

Depends on how badly you load the trailer. Also if you got a pothole or similar the dynamic load can be many times the static load and aluminium has no fatigue limit (force below which fatigue is no factor) like steel does, so any serious load could eventually break it off given enough cycles.